About

Our Mission

To provide everyone access to quality restaurant and restaurant-related investment opportunities while creating jobs and providing economic development opportunities.

Private Investing

Until recent years, investing in private businesses was confined strictly to the wealthy, known as accredited investors. The JOBS Act, which passed in 2012 and implemented in 2016, expanded regulations making it easier for virtually anyone to be able to invest in private companies. Restaurant Shares opens up partnership opportunities between restaurant professionals and the investing public to create jobs, opportunities, and economic growth.

Trading

Restaurant Shares provides a marketplace where you can buy and sell equity shares of rare restaurant businesses. Join other restauranteurs and investors in owning a piece of your favorite restaurant brands.

Through our partnership with an Alternative Trading System (ATS), you can buy shares starting at $5 per share in an initial public offering (IPO) and also trade on our secondary market.

About Restaurant Shares

Restaurant Shares (RS) is a dynamic business organization led by entrepreneurs and restaurant developers who make investments with a focus around multi-unit franchised and non-franchised restaurants.

Restaurant Shares, Inc. is a holding company that is engaged in the business of developing, investing in, and managing a diversified portfolio of food and beverage businesses, restaurant franchises, joint venture equity investments, and other hospitality related assets that are compelling from a risk-return perspective.

We intend to particularly focus on businesses that are located in the Sun Belt, which is a region that stretches across the Southern and Southwestern portions of the country from Florida to Arizona. These states include Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and others.

Our Industry

The food and beverage sector is one of the greatest contributors to job growth in the United States. In the US, there are over one million restaurants (Restaurant ORG). The restaurant industry has
employed about 15.3 million people. By 2030, the restaurant industry would generate an estimated 17.2 million jobs (NRA State of the Restaurant Industry Factbook). On any given day, more than 170 million people were foodservice patrons in 2018 (NRA Restaurant Industry Outlook). In 2018, over 200 million US consumers visited a sit-down restaurant (Statista). According the NRA’s 2019
Restaurant Industry Outlook, the restaurant industry has projected annual sales of $863 billion, which is 4% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP).

Our Business Model

We intend to expand our current restaurant concepts by establishing multiple wholly-owned subsidiaries, which will act as Series LLC's (limited liability companies) to invest in, own and operate various food and beverage units, including a new franchise business under the brands “Handam BBQ”, a concept developed and owned by David Lee, which was kicked off in 2020 and plan to grow aggressively in the future. The Company will expand its investment portfolio into additional franchise locations and other brands.

In executing our business strategy, we believe that we will benefit from our management’s experience in the food and beverage industry. Our competitive advantages include:

The experience and reputation of our founder and Chief Executive Officer, David Lee, as a successful food and beverage and franchise developer.
Our management having a track record of concept selection, site selection, site development, business acquisition, and developing properties.
A history of successfully operating multi-unit food and beverage business.
Business marketing and the meeting of projected investor return hurdles and profit objectives.